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Artificially   /ˌɑrtəfˈɪʃəli/   Listen
adverb
Artificially  adv.  
1.
In an artificial manner; by art, or skill and contrivance, not by nature.
2.
Ingeniously; skillfully. (Obs.) "The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought."
3.
Craftily; artfully. (Obs.) "Sharp dissembled so artificially."





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"Artificially" Quotes from Famous Books



... fine flavour, however, which Nature has given to all birds coming under the definition of poultry, man has not been satisfied with, and has used many means—such as keeping them in solitude and darkness, and forcing them to eat—to give them an unnatural state of fatness or fat. This fat, thus artificially produced, is doubtless delicious, and the taste and succulence of the boiled and roasted bird draw forth the praise of the guests around the table. Well-fattened and tender, a fowl is to the cook what the canvas ...
— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton
... far surpassing any that we artificially produce, either in our chemical laboratories or our metallurgical establishments. We can send a galvanic current through a piece of platinum wire. The wire first becomes red hot, then white hot; then it glows with a brilliance almost dazzling until ...
— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball
... which occupied Michelangelo's chisel was a Sleeping Cupid. His patron thought this so extremely beautiful that he remarked to the sculptor: "If you were to treat it artificially, so as to make it look as though it had been dug up, I would send it to Rome; it would be accepted as an antique, and you would be able to sell it at a far higher price." Michelangelo took the hint. His Cupid went to Rome, and was sold for thirty ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds
... to produce real beeswax artificially, there are many imitations which are made use of to adulterate the genuine article, and their detection is a matter of considerable difficulty. Huebl says (Dingl. Jour., p. 338) that the most reliable method of estimating ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 • Various
... temporary form of dissociation of the memories, artificially produced. Fascination and abstraction (absent-mindedness) are milder forms of the same phenomena with this difference, that they occur "in nature" ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park


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